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• Texas Death Row Prisoner Faces Execution Tonight for Murder He Didn’t Commit
• Tensions High as NATO Suspends Formal Contacts with Russia Over Georgia Conflict
• NYC Agrees to Pay 52 Antiwar Protesters $2 Million

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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• Iowa Town Turned into “Open-Air Prison” as Wives of Men Arrested in Largest Immigration Raid in US History Forbidden to Work…or Leave
• The Limits of Power: Andrew Bacevich on the End of American Exceptionalism

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

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• Cancer-Stricken 34-Year-Old Chinese Computer Engineer Dies After Being Denied Care in Private US Immigration Prison
• “The Bishop of the Poor”: Paraguay’s New President Fernando Lugo Ends 62 Years of Conservative Rule

Monday, August 18, 2008

• Headlines
• Facing Impeachment, Musharraf Resigns as President of Pakistan
• Obama, McCain Discuss Views on Christianity and Supreme Court Justices at Religious Forum
• Referendum on Torture: Debate Over Role of Psychologists in Military Interrogations Comes to a Head at APA Annual Convention

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• Amy Goodman’s New Column: “Cheney, Bush and Habbush”

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour, where she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her pledge that “impeachment is off the table.” She responded on the TV talk show “The View,” “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind may have provided the evidence she doesn’t want to see.

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• “Don’t Cage Dissent”

  Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.

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• Lawmaker Calls on Pentagon to Explain Promotion of Threat-Wielding Recruiter After Democracy Now! Broadcast

  Rep. Gene Green (D–TX) is calling on the Pentagon to explain why a military recruiter was given a promotion despite being found to have illegally threatened a teenage boy with jail time if he decided to go to college instead of joining the military. The recruiter was eventually promoted to head a different recruiting station. Green sent the letter questioning Kelt’s new job after his Wednesday appearance on Democracy Now!

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• “Threats, Lies and Audiotape”

  With no end in sight in Afghanistan and Iraq, military recruiters must be prevented from using desperate and aggressive measures to lure our nation’s young people—the poorest and most vulnerable—into the line of fire.

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• ‘It’s a Global Election’

  Amy Goodman reports from the Baltics: “When I arrived in Estonia last week—a former Soviet republic that lies just south of Finland—everyone had an opinion on Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin.”

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• “Who’s Paying for the Conventions?”

  The nominating conventions have become elaborate, expensive marketing events, but most people don’t know the extent to which major corporations fund them, pouring tens of millions of dollars into a little-known loophole in the campaign-finance system.

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• “Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid”

  While the presidential candidates trade barbs and accuse each other of flip-flopping, they agree with President Bush on their enthusiastic support for nuclear power.

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• “Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime”

  It is fantastic to see Ingrid Betancourt free, but the celebration of her release should not be confused with celebration of the Colombian government.

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